Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (Tokyo), has entered into an agreement with Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) to supply tonnage oxygen and nitrogen to Sasol’s world-scale ethane cracker, which is part of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to invest up to €56 million in the expansion of its polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) value chain over the next four years. PVP is a polymer that is used in diverse industries, for example the pharmaceutical…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will build a new manufacturing and filling facility in the Netherlands to produce hydrogen peroxide grades that are used as disinfection and decontamination agents to meet growing demand from the pharmaceutical industry. The new facility…
Algenol LLC (Ft. Myers, Fla.; www.algenol.com) and Reliance Industries Ltd. have successfully deployed India’s first Algenol algae production platform. The demonstration module is located near the Reliance Jamnagar Refinery. “The project is designed to demonstrate how robust the Algenol system is…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has been selected by Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to jointly develop the world’s first large-scale desalination plant to be powered by solar energy, in Saudi Arabia. AWT is a newly formed company based in Riyadh whose…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase its production capacities for the chemical intermediate 1,4-butanediol (BDO) by 10% at its site in Geismar, Louisiana as of 2016. The company will then have a global capacity of BDO of 670,000 metric…
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) are partnering to invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the nation’s schools. Dow and AACT will work…
KMG Chemicals, Inc. (Houston; www.kmgchemicals.com), a global provider of specialty chemicals in select markets, has announced that it has sold its creosote distribution business to Koppers Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc. Assets included in the transaction are…
Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.; www.anellotech.com), IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) have announced a strategic alliance to develop and commercialize a new technology for the low-cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using…
Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) will construct a validation plant at its Mizushima Works facility (Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan) for its newly developed process to produce diphenyl carbonate (DPC), a monomer used in polycarbonate (PC) production, via dialkyl carbonate…